Telamonia dimidiata
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Viciria dimidiata |
The two-striped telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), is a jumping spider found in various Asian tropical rain forests, in foliage in wooded environments.
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Description
Females can reach a body length of 9–11 mm, males can reach a length of 8-9 mm. The female is light yellowish, with a very white cephalus and red rings surrounding the narrow black rings round the eyes. Two longitudinal bright red stripes are present on the opisthosoma[1]. The male is very dark, with white markings, and red hairs around the eyes.
Distribution
They occur in Singapore (new record), Indonesia, India, Bhutan.
Email hoax
In 2002, the spider became the subject of an email hoax claiming that it was a fatal spider found lurking under toilet seats in North Florida. This hoax was a rehashing of an older email circulated in 1999 with similar claims, except under the name "South American Blush Spider (arachnius gluteus[sic])" - literally "butt spider". No such events ever occurred.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000:300
- ^ Snopes: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Two-Striped Telamonia Spider. Retrieved 2007-FEB-25.
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Description
- Spider myths and hoaxes
- Salticidae.org: Color photographs of both sexes
